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The Beatles Quotes (1960-)
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About The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band that formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the greatest and most influential act of the rock era. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several genres, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements in innovative ways. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania", but as the group's music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, they came to be perceived as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the era's sociocultural revolutions.
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“All I want is you.
Everything has got to be just like you want it to.”
Everything has got to be just like you want it to.”
“You and I have memories
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead.”
Longer than the road that stretches out ahead.”
“I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
And stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go.”
And stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go.”
“Why, tell me why, did you not treat me right?
Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight.”
Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight.”
“You say goodbye and I say hello.
Hello, hello.
I don't know why you say goodbye,
I say hello.”
Hello, hello.
I don't know why you say goodbye,
I say hello.”
“Do what you want to do,
And go where you're going to.
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you.”
And go where you're going to.
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you.”
“You tell me that you've got everything you want
And your bird can sing.
But you don't get me, you don't get me.”
And your bird can sing.
But you don't get me, you don't get me.”
“Oh yeah, I´ll tell you something
I think you´ll understand
When I say that something
I wanna hold your hand.”
I think you´ll understand
When I say that something
I wanna hold your hand.”
“Yes I'm lonely wanna die.
Yes I'm lonely wanna die.
If I ain't dead already,
Ooh girl you know the reason why.”
Yes I'm lonely wanna die.
If I ain't dead already,
Ooh girl you know the reason why.”
“Little child, little child,
little child, won't you dance with me?
I'm so sad and lonely,
Baby take a chance with me.”
little child, won't you dance with me?
I'm so sad and lonely,
Baby take a chance with me.”
“I'm in love for the first time.
Don't you know it's gonna last?
It's a love that lasts forever,
It's a love that had no past.”
Don't you know it's gonna last?
It's a love that lasts forever,
It's a love that had no past.”
“I was alone, I took a ride,
I didn't know what I would find there.
Another road where maybe I could see another kind of mind there.”
I didn't know what I would find there.
Another road where maybe I could see another kind of mind there.”
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The Beatles on Love 2 quotes
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“Why she had to go I don't know She wouldn't say. I said something wrong, Now I long for yesterday.”
The Beatles on Spoon
The Beatles on Poetry about love
The Beatles on Kaleidoscope
“Picture yourself in boat on a river, With tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly, A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.”
The Beatles on Help
“Help! I need somebody Help! Not just anybody Help! You know I need someone Help!
(When) When I was younger (When I was young) so much younger than today (I never need) I never needed anybody's help in any way (Now) But now these days are gone (These days are gone) and I'm not so self assured (And now I find) Now I find I've changed my mind, I've opened up the doors
Help me if you can, I'm feeling down And I do appreciate you being 'round Help me get my feet back on the ground Won't you please, please help me?”
Quotes About The Beatles
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Beatles' manager on The Beatles
Little Richard on The Beatles
“The Beatles are just a phenomenon; everything that the people say they are, they are. They're great. ... Their music is just melodious.”
Kurt Vonnegut on The Beatles
“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, "The Beatles did."”
Mick Jagger on The Beatles
“The Beatles were so big that it’s hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were. There isn’t a real comparison with anyone now. I suppose Michael Jackson at one point, but it still doesn’t seem quite the same. They were so big that to be competitive with them was impossible. I’m talking about in record sales and tours and all this. They were huge. They were bigger than Jesus!”
Glenn Frankel on The Beatles
“Liverpool was a small subsidiary of the Empire. It was Podunk and people in London looked down their noses at Liverpool talent. There was no way to get from here to here to there. Without Brian [Epstein] they could have been Michelangelo but they didn’t get out. Without Brian, they were just the best band in Liverpool.”
Timothy Leary as quoted on The Beatles
“I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.”
Elvis Presley as quoted on The Beatles
“Hell, I'm not interested in meeting those sons of bitches.”
About The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band that formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the greatest and most influential act of the rock era. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several genres, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements in innovative ways. In the early 1960s, their enormous popularity first emerged as "Beatlemania", but as the group's music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, they came to be perceived as an embodiment of the ideals shared by the era's sociocultural revolutions.